Eric Johnson Quotes
James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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I believe you have to live the songs.
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Not caring what people think about you is so much easier said than done and I think that it's easy to be in school and kind of compare yourself to everybody else, you might think that you're weird because some people don't like you or because you just dont feel like you belong in your own skin in your school and I think that it's important to realize that there's absolutely nothing wrong with you you're worth so much. As time progresses you'll see that and you have to learn to love yourself and accept yourself because its your skin.
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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.
